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I’m back

roger — Sat, 22 Feb 2014 20:37:29 +0000

I’m back, in many ways. In fall last year I decided that 4 years in the US should be enough and so I moved back to Switzerland in December. At the same time, I decided to go back into the OCS / Lync space and join Unify² â€“ a solution provider for Microsoft Lync â€“ to help them build their products and services. And last but not least, I’m trying (again) to write a little more frequently about stuff.

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I received a Letter from the Government …

roger — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 08:41:00 +0000

… the other day. It contained lots of material for me to read through and a form to fill in. But that’s not the reason why I’m typing this.

In order to still participate in certain elections and votes back in Switzerland, I have to register with the Swiss consulate in San Francisco. After doing so, they sent me a letter with additional info and forms. What I find most intriguing is that, even though they’re based in the US, they must have had their paper and envelopes shipped from Switzerland.

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Here’s to … changes

roger — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:57:00 +0000

I decided to start with a new series of posts (oh well, I guess it’ll turn out later if it’s really going to be a series) of Here’s to … Xyz posts to praise (or slam; go figure it out!) stuff.

So here’s to changes. If someone told me a year ago where I would be in a year and what I would be doing, I would have smiled at them and thought something like ‘Yeah, whatever.’ But here I am: After almost 4 years in Microsoft’s Development Center in Zurich, Switzerland I decided to pursue new opportunities and to move to Redmond in the state of Washington, where I am now working as part of the Windows Services and Content team in the Windows client organization. Which gets me right to the point: Changes. For me this really was a big change and so far I think it was well worth it. I have to admit though, that I did underestimate the work and stress invovled in the relocation (and I’m not completely done yet). On the other hand, what I gained so far already is priceless. So maybe in a year from now, you should ask me what I think about this. And maybe I’ll still tell you the same thing. Changes can be a good thing, if you give it a try.

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Windows 7 to RTM

roger — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:24:00 +0000

Microsoft has announced yesterday the release of Windows 7 (and Windows Server 2008 R2) to manufacturing, Windows 7 will be available on October 22^nd. And just to show you how much fun we have when we RTM a product, check out the Windows 7 RTM Sign-off video on YouTube …

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Games

roger — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:42:00 +0000

Today’s comic @ xkcd is just too funny. I guess even people who don’t know “War Games” may actually find some fun in it

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Welcome Back

roger — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:34:00 +0000

Well then, here we go. After a couple of years writing mostly only in German, I am back to writing in English. If you are wondering what happened, here’s the story. So far I have been using my own blog engine for my blog. Yesterday, after several years of loyal services, one of the hard disks in my server decided to say goodbye and leave me forever. Unfortunately that was the one which contained much of my data including the blog. So I while I am about to recover the data there, I decided that I could as well use some other guy’s blog engine. So here we go, I start from scratch and so can you.

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